{"id":15606,"date":"2025-12-24T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/12\/24\/boosting-wrap-pakistan-media-field-visits\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T13:17:57","slug":"boosting-wrap-pakistan-media-field-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/12\/24\/boosting-wrap-pakistan-media-field-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Boosting WRAP Pakistan Through Media Field Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Foreign, Commonwealth &#038; Development Office funded WRAP programme, the International Water Management Institute organised an Environmental Journalists&#8217; Quarterly Meeting and a series of media exposure visits that brought reporters from Karachi and Quetta to Islamabad and to two pilot districts. The initial briefing in Islamabad by <strong>Muhammad Ashraf<\/strong>, Country Representative Pakistan, and <strong>Kanwal Waqar<\/strong>, Gender &#038; Social Inclusion Specialist, examined water governance, accountability and the practical WRAP Pakistan interventions being implemented in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists observed a suite of on\u2011ground technologies in Chakwal where soil moisture sensors, flux towers and CTD divers are being used to replace irrigation guesswork. Women farmers spoke about how soil moisture sensors have cut water use, fuel consumption and pumping costs, and how clearer data is shaping everyday farm decisions. Seeing these technologies first hand allowed reporters to translate technical benefits into human stories relevant to local communities and policy audiences.<\/p>\n<p>In Mansehra the delegation witnessed precision irrigation in orchards that has raised productivity through targeted water application, while a community scale hydraulic ram pump demonstrated a low\u2011energy way to deliver water uphill. Local users described time savings for women and girls, reduced livestock stress and expanded small scale vegetable production, highlighting how WRAP Pakistan links technology with social benefits.<\/p>\n<p>By combining structured media engagement with field demonstrations, IWMI is strengthening environmental journalism so WRAP Pakistan outcomes reach policymakers, stakeholders and the public through credible independent reporting. First hand observation and inclusive storytelling are central to ensuring technical innovations and gender sensitive impacts are understood and acted on at provincial and national levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IWMI advances WRAP Pakistan with media field visits showcasing soil moisture sensors, precision irrigation and hydraulic ram pumps to influence policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}